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Cyberquest is coming! (click here for details) Need help? Turn to your Instructional Coach |
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| Teachers! Parents! Check the Instructional Coach web site at http://visalia.k12.ca.us/techcoach/index.htm/ for links to the textbook publishers' pages about your students' books. (Go to Curriculum Tools, Textbook Support.) Most of these include practice pages, help, and lesson planning advice for teachers. | |||
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Spotlight on New Books |
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Fiction |
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The 39 Clues: In Too Deep by Jude Watson. Number 6 in this series of exciting mysteries, each one written by a different well-known author for young people. RL 4.4 IL grades 3-6 | Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series by John Feinstein. The latest sports mystery from this best selling author. Teen reporters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol investigate the past of a popular player. RL 4.6 IL grades 4-9. |
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The Dream Stealer by Sid Fleischman. Master storyteller Fleischman combines folklore with fun as a girl retrieves a good dream from a spirit. RL 4.9 IL grades 3-6 | Forest Born by Shannon Hale. Fourth in the Books of Bayern series about Rinna, who is growing up wild and strange. R.L. 5.4 IL grades 5-8. |
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Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware: a Pals in Peril Tale by M.T. Anderson. Jasper Dash--Boy Technonaut--travels into the heart of the forbidden mountainous realm of Delaware. RL 5.2 IL grades 4-8 | The Secret of Zoom by Lynne Jonell. Ten-year-old Christina lives a sheltered life until she discovers a secret tunnel, an evil plot to enslave orphans, and a mysterious source of energy known as zoom. RL 4.8 Grades 3-6 |
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Picture Books |
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Big Bear Hug by Nicholas Oldland. A Bear who loves life hugs everyone and everything - and this skill comes in handy one day. RL 2.5 Grades P-3 | Stagecoach Sal by Deborah Hopkinson. Stagecoach driver Sal embarks on her first solo journey to deliver the mail and has a run in with the robber Poetic Pete. RL 2.5 Grades K-3 |
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Non-Fiction |
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Before Columbus: the Americas of 1491 by Charles C. Mann. The accomplishments of the natives of the American continents have been underestimated for years. RL 6.7 IL grades 6-12 | Touchdown: the Power and Precision of Football's Perfect Play by Mark Stewart and Mike Kennedy. History of American football focusing on touchdowns. RL 5.7 Grades 3-12 |
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New DVD |
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The
National Parks: America's Best Idea. This is Ken Burns
latest effort, ten years in the making, as shown on PBS this fall.
6 DVDs: 12.5 hours! Check it out. |
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New Literature Kits |
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Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone. Samuel Collier, a London street urchin, becomes the page of Captain John Smith on his voyage to settle in James Town Virginia in 1607. AR RL 5.3 IL grades 4-8 |
The Call of the Wild by Jack London. The classic tale of the dog Buck's entry into the wild and survival among the wolves. AR level 8.0 |
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Teachers Did you know that most of the VLC's 60,000 books have Accelerated Reader reading levels in their catalog record? This means you and your students can search for books at their reading level, then you can request them to be delivered to you or to your school library to check out to the student. Search our collection here. click on Reading Program Search to search by levels. You can also request books to be sent to you at particular levels. Just email Judy or George. |
Storytime and Book
Sale Stories read and told for all ages. Books for sale by Petunia's Bookstore, Fresno. |
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Goings on About Town
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Quote of the Month "A library is an arsenal of liberty." -- Anonymous "Literature becomes the living memory of a nation." -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008) Click here for a printable sheet of quotes from children's books ************************************************************* Jeff Savage www.jeffsavage.com is coming to Royal Oaks School Feb. 24. If your school wants to have Jeff come Feb. 25 or 26, contact George. |
(And donate to the VLC at the same time.) The VLC makes about $70 per month by recycling inkjet and laser cartridges. Rather than throwing them out or sending them back to the company's recycling program, put them in the school delivery to the VLC. We will use the proceeds to improve our services. Inkjet cartridges are worth as much as laser carts, so don't forget to put them in an envelope for us! You can now send in old cell phones, which will also be recycled. |
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American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving
- a free (downloadable) publication from
the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian: http://americanindian.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=education&second=thanksgiving |
| Pictures copyright free. If you need pictures for a project, use the ones here without worry for very little cost or free. www.morguefile.com or here: http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/ |
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xtimeline
http://www.xtimeline.com/ - an easy-to-use Web-based
timeline creator that allows the user to include images and video;
in addition, one can enter an RSS feed to automatically create a
timeline.
from Kathy Schrock
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/sos.html
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